Well, to make a long story short, I've installed and configured Wine following the instructions in the Wine User's Guide.
you didn't tell which version you use
Everything seems to be working properly, but when I attempted to run the setup.exe for 'Jim Henson Muppets Letters: Capital & Small', I received the following errors:
err:ddeml:DdeConnect .. but no Server window available err:ddeml:DdeClientTransaction Invalid conversation handle err:ddeml:DdeClientTransaction Invalid conversation handle err:ddeml:DdeClientTransaction Invalid conversation handle fixme:ddeml:DdeUninitialize16 stub calling DdeUninitialize
as of today, DDE doesn't work between two different applications (it's being worked on, but shall be done rather quickly now). So the first warning represents the state of DDE implementation.
I didn't see anything in the trace that jumped out at me, but I've attached it here, just in case it means something to someone else.
(you didn't ;-), but it won't be of no use before the before mentionned issue is solved
A+